31southst {l Wrote}:Shaddix {l Wrote}:31southst {l Wrote}:As much fun as it is to point out a few examples where TW is wrong, as a general matter, I think his point is a valid one. Of course nothing's absolute and there's still time but that doesn't mean we're in a good position.
Obviously the highest rated recruits do...but how often are they correct? I understand it but don't necessarily agree with it. The four guys left we are looking at are Severe, Hicks, Kelly, and Reynolds. Severe has legit offers, Hicks once had offers from Arizona and Indiana, Kelly plays on the #1 team in the country, and Reynolds is on postgrad year. It's not like we are plucking a recruit away from Umass or BU
I don't know about this last part. My knowledge of bball recruiting is basically limited to this thread but are these guys generally well-regarded? Severe clearly is. Does Hicks still have legit offers, because I thought we're competing with FIU and WKU (this is a legit question, I'm not being sarcastic)? Have we even offered Reynolds/who else has? Aren't Kelly's other offers SHU and Utah? I grant these are power conference schools (well SHU who knows) but they're not exactly bball factories.
Severe is now the object of a serious recruiting competition; Donahue & Co. will have to raise their recruiting game by at least 200% to get him. The big-name schools that recruited Hicks early (i.e., Indiana and Arizona) appear to be firmly out of the picture at this point, so we are competing with mid-majors like WKU and FIU; that's why I'm worried about other high majors jumping in late, especially since to some extent this is what we did. As far as I can tell, BC is seriously involved with Reynolds but still hasn't offered; they seem to be treating him rather obviously as Plan B if Kelly doesn't commit. Reynolds' offers are (unless I've missed something important) still all mid-majors, which is what made him go to Worcester Academy as a postgrad in the first place, so he may still be there for the taking if we offer him very late. Seton Hall and Utah, our competitors for Kelly, have had strong programs at times in the past (both have gotten to the Final Four, which BC has never accomplished), but their situations at present are unclear; Kelly's possible reclassification to 2014 may still be the most likely alternative to BC.
P.S. Besides those four players, I believe BC still has Jalen Norman in play, unless he's reached a firm decision to move to 2014.